Pakistan's tourism officials have announced plans to build a $30 million amusement park on the outskirts of the Himalayan foothills town that gained worldwide attention as the place where U.S. Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden.

The 50-acre site will include a zoo, restaurants, water sports, miniature golf as well as rock climbing and paragliding, officials said.

Officials in north Kyber Pakhtunkwa province denied to Sky News that the project was a way to improve the towns image after the bin Laden raid, saying the goal is simply to boost tourism.

"This project has nothing to do with Osama bin Laden," Syed Aqil Shah, the provincial minister for tourism and sports, told Sky News.

Jamaluddin Khan, the deputy provincial minister for tourism, told Reuters the project will take five years to complete, with work beginning in late February or early March.

This is too funny—absolutely perfect. What a contrast between the death and destruction from radicals—and good old-fashioned fun, American-style. :) At the risk of sounding like a hippy—may the good, happy energy spread far and wide. :)

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posted on 02/04/2013 8:42:11 PM PST
by proud American in Canada
(Please pray for America. She needs God's help more than ever now.)

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